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Monday, January 5, 2009

Dusty Lambchops News!

The greater Savannah area was nutty-cuckoo with Dustin McGowan coverage over the weekend. The Jays' right-hander, decked out in MMA gear, gave a clinic to youngsters on how not to throw a curveball and how to use facial hair to express your innermost hopes and dreams.

Also, if you're hankering to see Peaches speak with his delightful aww-shucks Georgia underbite, Savannah's WTOC has video of McGowan answering some pretty lame questions.

Forget about his shoulder...how's Dusty's pancreas?Incidentally, we noticed that both stories mention McGowan's type 1 diabetes...to which we were left thinking: Huh? Say wha? Did we miss something?

It's plausible that we have heard that McGowan has Type 1 diabetes before, but that it never registered with us. But we can't imagine why it wouldn't have struck us as important before now, especially given the sense of sudden anxiety we felt after we read this. (A search of our blog and the Drunks turned up nary a mention of his condition.)

Not that we want to overreact to the fact that McGowan has this condition, because others have dealt with it effectively over the years. (Journeyman pitcher Jason Johnson, for instance, wears and insulin pump on the mound.) But it raises concerns at the very least about his durability and the likelihood of him being good for 200 innings year-in and year-out.

Look, I'm a diabetic and as long as there is enough insulin to offset the energy that is incurred from pitching then Dustin will be fine. BUT Diabetes can fuck with your vision and fucks with you in other wyas. Look at Jason Johnson, where is he now? Maybe JP should sign him to a minor league contract!

This is really old news actually Tao. At least 2 + years. It was discovered after one of the seasons that he had diabetes which was never known before and was a large part of his inconsistancy in the years prior. Once he was diagnosed with it, he set up a proper diet and has maintained a healthy, stable weight since.

There are more sites then DrunkJays and here, ya know. Battersbox talked about it extensively, at least in the comments section.

Let's try that again: http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070301&content_id=1822127&vkey=spt2007news&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor ... If the link doesn't work, it's from March 1, 2007 in the bluejays.com archives.